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Carla Baz debuts resin and marble furniture in Beirut

French-Lebanese designer Carla Baz has unveiled a collection of marble furniture and lighting, including tables filled with pools of colourful resin.Debuted at Beirut's Joy Mardini Gallery during the city's annual design week,...

The European Stone Festival 2020 will take place in Freiburg, Germany from May 15...

The theme for the festival in 2020 is “900 years of stonemasonry and stone carving from the Middle Ages to the present day”.The European Stone...

18th-Century Sculpture Has a Delicate Net Carved Out of a Single Block of Marble

For centuries, sculptors around the world have adopted marble as their medium of choice. In order to both illustrate marble’s carving capabilities and showcase their own sculpting...

Famous granite site takes centre stage

One of America’s oldest, deepest granite quarries is set to become the stage of a floating theatrical display.The abandoned Wells Lamson Quarry, among the...

Art exhibition pays tribute to quarries

An international photographer’s ‘fascination’ with quarries has recently been exhibited at a contemporary art gallery in the US.  Andrew Buck’s exhibition Andrew Buck: Quarry – which features...

Pink marble ideas we can’t wait to try

Pink is the best color in the world. Always has been, always will be. And it's even dreamier and more Instagram-worthy when in the...

The Beauty of Marble in Indoor Spaces and for the Facades

If we think of marble, the first things that come to our minds are the sculptures made by artists like Michelangelo and Canova. Alternatively,...

Alasdair Thomson’s amazing marble sneakers

Alasdair Thomson is a Scottish artist, trained first at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in Art History, and then at the Building...

La Karrière: once a quarry, now a cultural attraction

The site in a village of 140 citizens about 30 km from Dijon attracts some 25.000 visitors per year / Summer art festival in...

The UK’s only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy

Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo­—a masterpiece of his early maturity and the Royal Academy’s great artistic treasure—has moved again. The circular, unfinished marble relief of the...